Posted on 10/06/2016 1:19:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There are very few places in the country where tortillas are as important as they are in New Mexico. Now a Chicago company thinks it has an invention everyone will love.
It’s a first-of-its kind toaster made just for tortillas.
But when it comes to homemade tortillas, Irene Dominguez, will tell you there’s nothing like a fresh one straight from the grill.
Jay Guthrie, with Duran Central Pharmacy, said for the last 30 years every morning batch of tortillas gets started with Dominguez, and customers agree.
“They’d never be as good as Duran’s homemade tortillas,” Sharon Johnson said.
The start-up company, Nuni, claims the invention is a time savor and that it doesn’t change the authentic taste of each tortilla; but New Mexicans have their doubts.
“It’s like they’re stealing my culture,” Anna Padilla said. “When I make tortillas I make like them off the ‘comal’ there is nothing like a fresh tortilla.”
“I really wouldn’t buy something like that because I think the culture here likes to have their tortillas warmed up on the stove, even burned a little on the edges,” Jennifer Montano said.
The company boasts that people can put in six tortillas at a time and after sixty seconds, they’re ready. The toaster even comes in colors for every kitchen and can toast both corn and flour tortillas.
Nuni is crowdfunding to raise $100,000 to mass produce and market the tortilla toasters.
A few years back I went to a 2-week technical training class in Mesa, Arizona. Next to my motel, some enterprising fellow had cut out the back of a classic silver Airstream camper and converted it into a taco stand. Best tacos and tamales I'd ever had!
I buy ‘ready to cook’ tortillas and cook them in a skillet too.
You paint a nice portrait of of your past, in one short paragraph.
Thank you for sharing.
Yeah. I don’t like New Mexican style and really don’t like Tex Mex. I like authentic Mexican food. Where I live we have plenty of choices.
Thanks! Do you remember the old Zorro serials(?) where he used a whip?
Don’t remember the movie serials but do remember the movie with Tyrone power, another with Douglas Fairbanks and the Disney TV series.
Bohemia! V nice.
Not what real Spaniards do, I guess, but I never claimed to be one.
I think it might have been the Disney series. I remember Zorro riding into a cave, shooting his whip up, and hauling himself off his black horse and out of sight
Such idiocy...
Arrgh! That must have been infuriating. I have a 40-year cast-iron skillet that has never been touched by soap or detergent. It’s just getting good.
YES!
““It’s like they’re stealing my culture,” Anna Padilla said”
Reminds me of Pauly Walnuts on Sopranos stealing an espresso maker from a “Starbucks” they were unable to extort because the local manager said that would have to be approved by corporate, and as he Pauly with the stolen espresso maker he was yelling, “Italians invented espresso, you know!”
“The company boasts that people can put in six tortillas at a time and after sixty seconds, they’re ready”
Sounds just like a microwave.
Yeah, them guys ;)
Roll out the barrels...
I LOVE hatch peppers. Mmmmmm.
I honestly don’t know.
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